[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Sep 19 09:10:06 EDT 2015




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     Contents:


     1. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 2

     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification)
 
     3. We're Moving

     4. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. GIF Construction Set Professional 6 Revision 2
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     GIF Construction Set Professional 6 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds a Caption function. Glue a text caption to the bottom of any
       animation, with your choice of fonts, colors and typography. This
       is especially useful for animations converted from digital video.


     - Fixes a bug in the Text Overlay function... which caused it to not
       actually overlay any text under some builds of Windows. This 
       largely defeated its purpose.


     - Allows the Animation Wizard window to autosize itself to fill most
       of your monitor area by default when it's reset or opened for the 
       first time. You can reset Animation Wizard by holding down the 
       Shift key on your keyboard when you open it.


     - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library that could crash the 
       application when the JPEG library was confronted with certain 
       pathological data.


     - Addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the initial 
       version 6 release.


     - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software 
       developers never really stop meddling with.      


     - Updates the documentation.

    

     You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set 
     Professional 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 6. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set
     Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to GIF 
     Construction Set Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user 
     license.

     When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 6, it will check 
     to see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 
     5 on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you 
     which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the 
     Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of GIF Construction 
     Set Professional 6's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   


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     PLUGINS


     All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have 
     been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6.

     If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of 
     GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still
     valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your
     plugins.

     All the animation plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html

     IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or 
     PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction 
     Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new
     version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, 
     and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set.

     If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, 
     you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows
     Control Panel's Programs and Features applet.




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     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 3 (Second Notification)
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been updated - the improved 
     architecture has allowed us to implement some enhancements and new 
     functionality that have hitherto been pretty much impossible. 

     This release:


     - Expands the Archive Manager. Right-click on a ZIP or RAR archive and
       you'll be able to access its contents. Aside from just extracting 
       files from an archive, the Archive Manager can now apply all of 
       Graphic Workshop's batch processes - such as file conversion and
       resizing - to some or all of the graphics therein. 

       You can manage the pictures in a ZIP file without having to unZIP 
       them to a folder on your hard drive.


     - Addresses an issue in the View window that could cause the keyboard
       focus to get lost after using the Filters function, under some builds
       of Windows. When this happened, any keyboard shortcuts from the View
       window's menus disappeared into an alternate reality until a mouse 
       click got the attention of the window again.


     - Allows the View and Crop windows to hide the Windows task bar if you 
       have the auto-hide option enabled in the task bar's Properties. You
       might want to read that one again if it sounded like two Martians 
       discussing what to order for lunch.

       If the View window was maximized and Windows' task bar was set to 
       automatically hide itself - and then appear when your mouse cursor
       approached the bottom of the screen - the task bar could appear and
       interfere with the horizontal slider and the zoom toggle at the 
       bottom of the View window. 

       The View window will now prevent the task bar from appearing in these
       circumstances. 

       We hasten to add that the interest of the View window in the task bar
       only manifests itself if the task bar auto-hide option is on, and that
       this feature can be disabled through Graphic Workshop's Setup window.

       Finally, note that you can still summon the task by from the View 
       window with Ctrl-Esc.


     - Adds a Paste to Crop item to Graphic Workshop's Edit menu. Paste any
       compatible graphic on the Windows clipboard directly to Graphic 
       Workshop's Crop window.


     - Fixes a inconsistency in the Search window's progress monitor.


     - Fixes the slider in Slide Show window called from Search, which 
       previously did pretty much nothing under some builds of Windows.


     - Adds a folder history list to the Archive extract window.


     - Fixes the View and Slide Show taskbar buttons in the Search and 
       Favorites windows, that could prove to be largely non-functional
       under some builds of Windows.


     - Fixes a bug in the JPEG import library for Graphic Workshop's 
       ancillary applications - e-Paint UltraLght, Montage, Camera and 
       so on - that could crash the application in question when the 
       JPEG library was confronted with certain pathological data.


     - Fixes a resource leak in the browser refresh logic.


     You can download Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 6, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 on your 
     system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of 
     the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
     to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 6's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   


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     PLUGINS


     All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been 
     upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 6.

     If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
     release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
     valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
     plugin.

     All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html

     IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 5 and
     you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 5 to replace it with the new
     Graphic Workshop Professional 6, please be sure uninstall all your 
     version 5 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 5.



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     3. We're Moving
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     Actually, we're not going anywhere. The server that sent you this 
     message will be hosted by a new hosting company by next weekend.

     All the Alchemy Mindworks web pages and other resources will appear
     at the same addresses, and nothing much will have changed.

     In changing servers, however, we'll also be changing IP addresses, the 
     underlying numerical addresses that identify things on the Internet.
     Because our new IP addresses used to be someone's old IP addresses,
     and because some spam filtering logic traps mail based on the IP
     addresses from which it originated, the possibility exists that our mail 
     to you might be blocked - including postings from this list.

     If you don't receive next week's posting, please get in touch with us:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html

     We'll try to persuade whoever's blocking our mail to you to lighten up.

     In the event that you receive more than one posting to this list next
     weekend, please accept our apology in advance. 



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